Santa Monica Extends Pioneering E-Scooter Pilot Program
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Santa Monica is planning modifying its shared micro-mobility pilot in 2020. The initial year has yielded plenty of data on how e-scooters are working
Recent Streetsblog LA posts about e-scooters
Councilmember Koretz, LAPD Announce E-Scooter Enforcement Task Force
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Koretz' "task force" is essentially a push for police to enforce e-scooter laws, including prohibitions on sidewalk riding and multiple riders on a single scooter
Interview with Melinda Hanson, Bird’s Sustainability Chief
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Hanson talks about Bird's life cycle environmental impacts, climate change, the Cruiser, and reclaiming streets
Atlanta Bans E-Scooters at Night After Drivers Kill Four Riders
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Drivers, however, still may use city streets at all hours — even though motor-vehicle crashes killed 115 people in Fulton County, which encompasses most of Atlanta, in 2017.
Councilmember Koretz Calls E-Scooters “Anti-Vision Zero,” Pushes to “Get Rid of These”
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Koretz expressed plenty of anti-scooter sentiment, but L.A. City's dockless mobility pilot remains unchanged
Federal E-Scooter Safety Report Raises Serious Concerns
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A study released today by the Centers for Disease Control [PDF] was supposed to finally put to rest one of the most pressing questions about e-scooters: Are they safe?
Instead, we still don’t really have a good answer.